Reply #10: Because a leopard never changes her spots?

[Maat]

She just finds legal language to justify her predetermined position.

And, yes, I have a J.D. (law degree). You could predict the ruling of a particular justice if you knew his political tilt (i.e. belief system). That justice found the legal precedent/buzzwords/rationale to lead to that opinion afterwards (you could just tell).

I've read hundreds of opinions since my first year of law school. Rehnquist, for example, was as predictable as could be.